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It is now emerging that Kenya imports milk from Uganda to meet its shortfall.
Statistics show that Kenya bought milk worth Sh520 million from Uganda last year.
On its part, Kenya sold dairy products valued at Sh290 million to Uganda during the period.
The milk imported by Kenyan firms is mainly in powder form and is meant to safeguard the processors’ market share during the dry season when local supplies are low.
Data from the East and Southern Afri.... Read more »
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
Tea farmers have earned close to Sh10 billion more from leaves delivered in the year ended June 2015, helped by a strong US dollar and high pricing of the commodity in the world market.
Latest industry performance data released Tuesday shows that growers affiliated to the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) have received Sh28.7 billion in the second round of payment for their produce compared to the Sh19 billion they earned in a similar period the previous year.
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Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
The government is pushing forth a vision to finance own budget by gradually reducing donor dependence. To do this, government has to up its game plan in harnessing local sources of revenue.
You only get quantity and quality milk from a cow that you nourish well. This means to make the most of the lucrative tourism industry, the government has to continue devising measures to improve the sector.
Tourism is the country’s top income earner bringing in $304.9.... Read more »
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
Some senior Kenyan officials will visit China for a one-week training program sponsored by China’s Ministry of Commerce to learn innovative strategies to catalyze industrial progress in the east African nation.
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
The Kenyan government has signed a new agreement that will extend the Mombasa-Nairobi standard gauge railway (SGR) line to Naivasha, a town lies about 120 kms northwest of the capital. The deal was signed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBR) Chairman Wen Gang and Kenya Railways Managing Director Atanas Maina during a Cabinet Steering Committee on SGR meeting chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
Hikma Pharmaceutical Plc has announced plans to buy nearly the entire share capital (98.09%) of EIMC United Pharmaceuticals from a consortium of shareholders to boost its position in the Egyptian market.
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
Resolve Capacity has won a USAID Mozambique tender to design and build a regional pharmaceutical warehouse in Nampula, Mozambique, with a budget of $7.6 million.
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
US-born Kaakpema Yelpaala is the entrepreneur behind ClinicCommunicator, a web application that allows healthcare professionals to communicate with patients via mobile phones in Uganda. Using the service, medical personnel can electronically record basic patient information into cloud-based software, and then schedule and send SMS reminders for medicine, scripts and appointments. The model makes use of an annual subscription fee.
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
In the push for the use of more technology to treat and enhance patient care in Africa Healthcare. A new hospital: The Cardiac and Renal Centre, located in the Gbagada area of Lagos, Nigeria, is the first of its kind in the country specializing in comprehensive advanced Cardiac and Renal care. At full capacity, the centre will employ over 200 nursing and support Staff to provide state-of-the-art inpatient and outpatient services that offers excellence in patient healthcare. It would.... Read more »
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
The Ministry of Education and Sports has disclosed that 30,000 workers are required for the construction of oil pipeline in the oil and gas sector.
During a dialogue on how to provide the required human resource for oil and gas sector in Kampala last week, the Education ministry Permanent Secretary, Ms Rose Nassali Lukwago, said that institutions are required to provide more than 5,000 qualified personnel.
“We want to ensure that nationals get inv.... Read more »
Posted on : Wednesday , 23rd September 2015
Kenya is optimistic that a route agreed by Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni will carry the day despite opposition from holders of blocks in the Albertine basin.
According to commissioner of petroleum at the Ministry of Energy Martin Heya Kenya is working on fulfilling various requirements such as guarantees to security, route optimization and financing set by the Ugandan government so as to enable the project to progress with.... Read more »
Posted on : Tuesday , 22nd September 2015
More than 100 fish farmers in West Pokot county have received 1,000 fingerlings.
Posted on : Tuesday , 22nd September 2015
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